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-- hurricane sandy supplemental. the presiding officer: is there an objection? without objection. ms. mikulski: the clerk will report? officer stir ththe presiding ofr the bill has been reported. ms. mikulski: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. the chamber will come to order. please carry your conversations outside the chamber. ms. mikulski: mr. president, i'd like to give a sense of the order of amendments so senators may plan their time. so if we could ask for order. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. ms. mikulski: we're now back on the supplemental bill, and we have great cooperation in getting the pending amendments and debate done this evening, so that we could actually start voting this morning. so that senators can have an understanding of how we'll start our work this evening, i want to lay out a bit of the schedule. this is not a unanimous consent request. it's kind of an outline. our intention is to have the following amendments called up after i yield the fl
-- hurricane sandy supplemental. the presiding officer: is there an objection? without objection. ms. mikulski: the clerk will report? officer stir ththe presiding ofr the bill has been reported. ms. mikulski: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. the chamber will come to order. please carry your conversations outside the chamber. ms. mikulski: mr. president, i'd like to give a sense of the order of amendments so senators may plan their time. so if we could ask for...
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in my -- the transportation network was devastated by sandy. new jersey transit which carries 900,000 riders daily suffered damage to wall 12 rail lines. miles of track and road were washed out, some stations flooded and destroyed, hundreds of cars and locomotives were submerged, some suffering irreparable damage. the past system which carries seventy-seven million people from new jersey and manhattan each year was brought to a halt by the flooding. hoboken's station in new jersey which provides service to 30,000 people daily reopened to the public only yesterday more than a month and half after sandy made landfall. to help illustrate how serious the flooding was i would like to share this image from security camera showing corot's if see water rushing into the hoboken station. in new york where public transit carries eight million riders each day the damage was unprecedented. sandy shutdown the entire system for the second time in its 108 year history. eight subway tunnels were flooded. some from floor to ceiling. 12 subway stations suffered m
in my -- the transportation network was devastated by sandy. new jersey transit which carries 900,000 riders daily suffered damage to wall 12 rail lines. miles of track and road were washed out, some stations flooded and destroyed, hundreds of cars and locomotives were submerged, some suffering irreparable damage. the past system which carries seventy-seven million people from new jersey and manhattan each year was brought to a halt by the flooding. hoboken's station in new jersey which...
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tomorrow the senate is expected to take up aid for victims of hurricane sandy. we will have live coverage on c-span2. while we wait for their return earlier today we spoke with a capitol hill reporter to taught at the opening day activities and changes the senate could face. >> the senior congressional reporter for politico. it's opening day for the 113th congress and we are hearing senate majority leader harry reid intends to keep the first legislative day going through most of this month. what is the goal? >> he wants to preserve the rights to change the filibuster rules by 51 votes. the reason why he's doing that is because of the first day of a legislative session is when you deal with the rules package, and then you have the option to purchase some changes by 51 vote majority. typically it requires 67 votes to do it. a very high threshold, it requires a lot of bipartisan support in order to change any senate rules, but there has been a very strong push by the band of mostly junior officers set up with the to gridlock and they blame it on the filibuster and
tomorrow the senate is expected to take up aid for victims of hurricane sandy. we will have live coverage on c-span2. while we wait for their return earlier today we spoke with a capitol hill reporter to taught at the opening day activities and changes the senate could face. >> the senior congressional reporter for politico. it's opening day for the 113th congress and we are hearing senate majority leader harry reid intends to keep the first legislative day going through most of this...
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president, when hurricane sandy struck, hundreds -- when hurricane sandy struck the northeast, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people were without power. we all saw the video footage, we saw the terrible trauma and people are still trying to dig out from underneath the debris of hurricane sandy. during that period of time, hundreds of workers drove up from the south wanting to help. these workers were nonunionized and they were turned away. this was a sad day for our country that nonunion workers were not allowed to participate in the cleanup and were asked to join a union before they would be accepted as workers. i think it's a mistake to politicize things like this, particularly at a time of an emergency. so what i've asked for and what my amendment would do would be to allow an exemption to davis-bacon. davis-bacon is a federal law that requires that we not have competitive bidding on federal projects. what happens is, on federal projects the wages are fixed at a union scale wage, and there is not a competitive bidding for wages. so what i've asked is that we suspend that a
president, when hurricane sandy struck, hundreds -- when hurricane sandy struck the northeast, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people were without power. we all saw the video footage, we saw the terrible trauma and people are still trying to dig out from underneath the debris of hurricane sandy. during that period of time, hundreds of workers drove up from the south wanting to help. these workers were nonunionized and they were turned away. this was a sad day for our country that...
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lawmakers were standing by to act on the hurricane sandy relief bill that stalled in the house. house leadership indicated last night that they will not bring that relief bill to the floor before the start of the 113th congress tomorrow. of course, before leaving the capitol yesterday, the house approved the fiscal cliff agreement hammered out by vice president biden and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. in that agreement tax rates for incomes up to $400,000 remain unchanged, but above that the rates rise to 39.6%. estate taxes go to the top rate of 40% with the first $5 million exempted. capital gains taxes go up to 20%, and it delays across-the of board spending cuts for two months. the agreement also extends long-term unemployment benefits for one year and allows the the 2% payroll tax cut to lapse, it being restored to 6.2%. also the alternative minimum tax is permanently adjusted. check out c-span.org, and you can find more at our fiscal cliff web site. >> burmese opposition leader aung san suu kyi said the award represents the aspirations of the burmese people for a
lawmakers were standing by to act on the hurricane sandy relief bill that stalled in the house. house leadership indicated last night that they will not bring that relief bill to the floor before the start of the 113th congress tomorrow. of course, before leaving the capitol yesterday, the house approved the fiscal cliff agreement hammered out by vice president biden and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. in that agreement tax rates for incomes up to $400,000 remain unchanged, but above...
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the senate today is also expected to work on a $60 billion hurricane sandy relief package. there's to agreement on the so- there's no agreement on the so-called fiscal cliff, but negotiations continue off the floor. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. the chaplain, dr. barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. o god, before whom the lives of all are exposed and the desires of all known, be at work in our lives. wipe away selfish interest, so that we may perfectly love and truly serve you. give our lawmakers courage as they face today's challenges providing them with the necessary skill to perform their duties and accomplish your purposes. give them the wisdom to refuse to sow to the wind, thereby risking reaping the whirlwind. may they find joy in both serving and loving you. we pray in your holy name. amen. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivi
the senate today is also expected to work on a $60 billion hurricane sandy relief package. there's to agreement on the so- there's no agreement on the so-called fiscal cliff, but negotiations continue off the floor. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. the chaplain, dr. barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. o god, before whom the lives of all are exposed and the desires of all known, be at work in our lives. wipe away selfish interest, so that...
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there was a bill introduced by the ranking member of the ways and means committee in the house, sandy levin, that called for this legislation. the speaker was going to bring it up to kill it but he couldn't kill it. and then we moved to albany b, b, -- plan b, the debacle of all debacles. it's the mother of all debacles. that was brought up in an effort to send us something. he couldn't even pass it among republicans, it was so absurd, he meaning the speaker. so it's very clear now, mr. president, that the speaker's number-one goal is to get elected speaker on january 3. the house is not even here. he's told me he will give them two days to get back here, 48 hours. not two days. 48 hours. they don't even have enough of the leadership here to meet to talk about it. they have done it with conference calls. people are spread all over this country because the speaker basically is waiting for january 3. now, the president campaigned on raising taxes on people making more than $250,000 a year. the bush-era tax cuts will expire at the end of this year. obama was elected with a surplus of abo
there was a bill introduced by the ranking member of the ways and means committee in the house, sandy levin, that called for this legislation. the speaker was going to bring it up to kill it but he couldn't kill it. and then we moved to albany b, b, -- plan b, the debacle of all debacles. it's the mother of all debacles. that was brought up in an effort to send us something. he couldn't even pass it among republicans, it was so absurd, he meaning the speaker. so it's very clear now, mr....
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bingaman: as hurricane sandy was --. the presiding officer: senators, may we please have order in the chamber. and under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment number 3344 offered by the senator from new mexico, mr. bingaman. thank you. mr. bingaman: as hurricane sandy was bearing down on our own east coast, causing tremendous damage, a super typhoon named bofa was also striking the small pacific nation of palau. the u.s. embassy there in palau issued a disaster declaration on december 5. in response to this emergency, palau has asked that the assistance agreement signed by the united states in 2010 be approved so that the funds already agreed to can become available for disaster recovery. palau is a strategic ally of ours in the western pacific near guam and the philippines and indonesia. last year our defense department wrote "failure to follow through on our commitments to palau as reflected in the proposed agreement would jeopardize our defense
bingaman: as hurricane sandy was --. the presiding officer: senators, may we please have order in the chamber. and under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment number 3344 offered by the senator from new mexico, mr. bingaman. thank you. mr. bingaman: as hurricane sandy was bearing down on our own east coast, causing tremendous damage, a super typhoon named bofa was also striking the small pacific nation of palau. the u.s....